This report provides comparisons among the social indicator reports of seven countries including Canada, France, Great Britain, Japan, Norway, the United States, and West Germany. The purpose of social indicator research in each country is to provide a means for developing more adequate answers to the questions over present and emerging social…

The Rotter Internal-External (I-E) Scale, the Academic Interest Measures-Educational Testing Service (AIMS-ETS) Survey, and a demographic questionnaire were administered to 541 Catholic high school students. Variance analysis revealed that internals were significantly differentiated from externals on 15 AIMS (life goals) in the 31-item AIMS-ETS…

The purpose of the study was to determine what factors affect success in passing the General Education Development (GED) exam. Using data gathered between 1960 and 1972 from 200 successful GED students at the Mattoon Area Adult Education Center, Ill., the authors developed frequency distribution charts to characterize the students and scattergrams…

This report provides an analysis and comparison of three types of day care licensing documents: (1) Model State Day Care Licensing Act, (2) State of Hawaii Rules and Regulations Governing Day Care Centers (1966) and Rules and Regulations Governing Family Day Care Homes (1966), and (3) Federal Interagency Day Care Standards. The first part of the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate in what ways and to what extent Parent Advisory Committees on Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act (PACT) and school authorities influenced each other in regard to decisions concerning Title I programs. By means of a descriptive analytic case study approach, the interactions of the PACTs and…

This dissertation examines the developmental process and output (student performance) of a public alternative school, the Everywhere School, founded by the citizens of the South Arsenal community of Hartford, Connecticut. The objectives of the study were: (1) to explore the process whereby a community organization interacted with the Hartford…

The current study is concerned with identifying racial-ethnic differences in cognitive strategies or structures that are related to performance on verbal ability tests. The study had two goals: (1) to compare the semantic equivalency of intelligence test items between racial-ethnic groups, and (2) to examine the relationships of individual…

The study examines the reliability of the Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System (COPES). The COPES process is a system for evaluating program strengths and needs. A two-way test, college self-appraisal with third party validation of the self-appraisal, is utilized to assist community colleges in future institutional planning…

The subjects for this study were 128 girls and 156 boys in public schools. Teachers were randomly assigned to one of three treatments designated active games, passive games, and traditional activities. Subjects were selected as having limited sight vocabularies based on the results of the Sight Vocabulary Recognition Test pretest. Data were…

The study investigated whether Mexican American male and female migrants differed from Mexican American male and female non-migrants in reference to: level and type of occupational and educational aspirations and expectations; projected age of marriage and procreation; and valuation of life goals. Using data gathered in a 1973 survey of Mexican…

Comparative data on the perceptions of objectives and the performance of schools in meeting these objectives among the various status groups involved in secondary education that extends previous research efforts by offering a combined measure of dissatisfaction is reported in this paper. The proposed measure of satisfaction with the school system…

Commuting students make up sixty-two percent of the fall 1975 student body and represent the principal source of enrollment growth at UNC-G. The Office of Institutional Research conducted a survey of 2,140 commuter and resident students in the spring of 1975. A stratified random sample was designed so that students in the different undergraduate…

The commuting university student has traditionally been characterized in educational literature as less affluent, intellectually less sophisticated and more closely tied to home and family than his peer who lives in university housing. Such generalizations, while historically accurate, do not take into account factors that are bringing older,…

Characteristics and attitudes of Alaska Native high school dropouts were studied in an attempt to answer questions relative to: (1) parental influence; (2) dropout dependency; (3) parental dependency and its effect upon dropout students; (4) dependency as a major reason for dropping out. Data were synthesized from several studies concerned with…

This is the sixth annual publication of pertinent characteristics related to public education in South Carolina. These characteristics have been selected and compiled to indicate the relative standing of each county or school district in each statistical category. The 108 ranked characteristics are arranged alphabetically by county or school…